Allen & Gledhill LLP

Competition & Foreign Investment Review, ESG & Public Policy

Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Review Practice and ESG & Public Policy Practice, Chief Sustainability Officer

Elsa is Regional Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Review Practice, and Co-Head of its ESG & Public Policy Practice. She is also the Firm’s Chief Sustainability Officer.

She regularly assists clients on complex antitrust and foreign investments review matters in Singapore and beyond, including merger control, global cartel and abuse of dominance investigations. Her experience ranges from strategy and advocacy in submissions to negotiation of commitments to obtain merger control and foreign investment approvals in and outside of Singapore.

Elsa’s ESG and public policy experience ranges from assisting clients on ESG trends and implications, sustainability reporting, codes of conduct, advocacy, and assisting on legislative changes. Elsa also regularly assists clients on the antitrust, consumer protection and public policy aspects of ESG matters, including collaboration agreements, merger control, and greenwashing claims.

In 2020, Global Competition Review (GCR) named Elsa as one of the world’s top 40 antitrust practitioners under the age of 40, and the only economist named in Asia, in its quadrennial 40 under 40 survey. Elsa is the only economist in Asia cited as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Lexology Index: Competition 2024 and 2025.

Elsa was previously from the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore, which oversees competition and the significant investments review legislation in Singapore, and was also a pioneer member of the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS), now known as the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS).

English; Mandarin

Recipient of the Prime Minister’s Book Prize, graduated summa cum laude with a double degree in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University, Massachusetts, and was placed yearly on the Dean’s List. Holds a postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an LL.M. with a specialisation in Competition Law.